Cozy Up With Fall

These are yummy little creatures... I like them topped with chocolate chips or caramelized nuts.

Pumpkin Pancakes!

makes 15 pancakes

2 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons softened butter

2 tablespoons packed brown sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice

1 & 1/2 cups evaporated milk

1/2 cup canned pumpkin

2 tablespoons veggie oil

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

*Mix first 4 ingredients together until blended.

*Add brown sugar, cinnamon, and allspice to it.

*Then add in the remaining wet ingredients, beat until smooth.

*Make and enjoy pancakes!

Lovely on Sundays

I made these as a surprise for Chase on Sunday. He loves blueberry muffins! and he loved these and the crunchy streusel on top!

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

makes 12 muffins

1 & 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

1 cup fresh blueberries 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin cups with paper liners (using a cupcake pan).

Combine 1 & 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Add to flour mixture. Stir together. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups close to the top and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture. 

Crumb topping

1/2 cup sugar

1/3 cup flour

1/4 cup butter

1 & 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

Mix together sugar, flour, butter, and 1 & 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with a fork and spoon and sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Bake for about 15 minutes.

Make you banana pancakes...

A friend of mine shared this recipe with me and it is sooo yummy! I made half exactly like below and half I added chocolate chips to.

Banana Pancakes
Makes about 12 (4 inch) pancakes

1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
2 tbs sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp nutmeg
3/4 c. skim milk
1 c. mashed ripe bananas
2 tbs oil
2 tsp lemon juice
3 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/4 tsp cinnamon

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix well.

Add remaining ingredients. Stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.

To form each pancake, pour about 1/3 c into hot skillet.

Top with carmelized walnuts, bananas, berries, peanut butter or chocolate chips. Then maple syrup!

Shimmies & Shakes

This is so tasty and delicious it will make you shimmy and shake!

Yum Yum Buns

2 cans biscuits (Grands Flaky Homestyle, 8 count)

3 oz. cream cheese (cut into 16 cubes)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup melted butter

1/3 cup chopped pecans 

1 cup powdered sugar, sifted

1 & 1/2 tablespoons hot water

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine sugar and cinnamon, set aside. Take biscuits one at a time, flatten with palm of hand, place 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon mixture in the middle of biscuit and one cube of cream cheese. Pinch edges of biscuit together, keep pinching until you create a ball.

Pour melted butter in bottom of bundt pan, pour the rest of the cinnamon and sugar mixture on next and top with chopped pecans. Place all biscuits in pan, seam side up.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 until golden brown. Remove cake from pan. Mix powdered sugar, hot water and vanilla to make icing. Drizzle over cake. Enjoy!!

An individual little bun... :)

Tahiti Sweetie

While Chase and I were in Tahiti we had the most amazing French toast. We ate it almost every morning. I don't know if they used fresh Tahitian vanilla beans or what but it was scrumptious. This weekend we experimented with our own version and mmmh it was yummy!

Citrus Infused French Toast

Makes 4 slices

1/2 cup milk

2 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. cinnamon 

fourth an orange 

orange zest

2 eggs

"some French" :) 

1. Mix first 6 ingredients in a medium bowl. Zest orange & then queeze over bowl (don't juice it). 

2. Cut French bread in 1 inch slices on a slant.

3. Soak pieces of bread 1 at a time. Make sure to have cinnamon and zest stay on the top and bottom of the slice. 

4. Cook for 3-4 minutes on each side, over low heat, until done. 

Smother with black berries or strawberries and dust with powdered sugar. Serve with warm maple syrup.